My first in the new year today was on the that I had drawn in the course of last autumn. As it was my first forest map drawn from scratch for a competition, I was a little apprehensive but it was okay (luckily I am not a perfectionist). Surprisingly, among the mistakes I noticed at running speed were really obvious features that I had apparently overlooked walking.
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A nice day for some simple
Pro tip for : if your coach says: "In this special type of training you get an ordinary map but the controls can be either correct, missing or in the wrong place," do not ask "so what is special about the training"
Today was my first experience of a Snooker O event! Such a (tiring) amount of fun.
After the cancellation of my forest event in January, I have turned my eye to the next event I am planning, a street event. Just did a 10km jog with the dog to check the map - lots of juicy cut throughs.
While mapping for , I found a 20-liter can containing a residue of petrol in the middle of a forest, where wood had been cut. I wonder how anybody who works professionally in woodland management or has obtained a permit can be this inconsiderate.
Common 1977.
Dave Trulcok . Used for the British Relay Championships and printed on Tyvek, the stuff used for scene of crime suits and house walls.
Frustratingly the event I was planning in early January has been cancelled as permissions have been declined Spent 4 hours this afternoon collecting in all the tape marking the control sites.
Cold and wet
Ddi aux potos de la
Nice day to train
in Massachusetts on a rainy December day and you encounter this. Do you think
(A) Let's face it, Mr. Frodo, we're lost. I don't think Gandalf meant for us to come this way.
(B) Well, I'm not saying I'd like to build a summer home here, but the trees are actually quite lovely.
says:
- rimmisen epilyttv.
And the second loop from todays
Todays - first loop
2nd in the provisional results for todays event, albeit with a lower number of entries. It was a number of small grotty woods, and I do well forcing through that kind of terrain with power / stupidity!
A fantastic, albeit cold, morning marking out control sites for the event I am planning in January.
I ran the RunLawrence 5K this morning. Before the race I drew a simple street course and brought the map along for the run.
OrienteeringI (and I know others who enjoy do this) - dream up maps that they then can read that also match the dreamt landscape, contours and all. It's weird. There may be some usual dream impossibility in the land (a very high wall that floats across a lake or something), but it's there on the dream map, correct symbols and all.
A windy and showery but wonderful orienteering event at Broughton Burrows in Devon. Very detailed contours!
"Valley ponds"
Oil on board 10"x12"
Online Auction on now! My donation to the HPP Online fundraising auction supporting Orienteering Canada's Team Canada athletes. OrienteeringCAN
Yesterdays . Notice that a contour (or 2) is missing near 9.
Qui a oubli sa boussole dans la seule CO urbaine o c'est VRAIMENT plus prudent de partir avec
Prvenez les secours si je dpasse la permission de minuit
Near Leksand in 1991. Not sure about that route to 4. Maybe straighter was faster Or maybe not
A simple corridor course for part of this mornings jog.
me make my kids go night in a rainstorm after the clocks went back on a school night for fun noooo, can't be.
Checking out the map in a mix of rain and sleet.
Todays
It is a surprising and memorable, as well as valuable experience, to be lost in the woods at any time.
- Henry David Thoreau
(ouch)
White contour lines on this old map.
we're putting a course around the track!
Im not lost, Im
An old map. The course is from March 1981. 2nd day of a 2 day event near Carbondale,IL.
Yes do it!
Was an early start this morning 6.30 in the woods an hour from home to start putting out controls in the dark. All worth it to see the many happy runners finishing later in the day (in the glorious sun) ranging in age from under 10s to over 80s. Some fast times too:
Morning hilly run on campus with an in-progress sprint orienteering map.
How to spend a Saturday night in : Night in Parc Angrignon - it was so much fun!
Yikes! You dont use plastic covers
Mine is in pretty good shape after 5 km in moderately wet conditions today.